Re: DVD Problem

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Curt Howland wrote:

> Oh well, it was a good try.
>  

I will confess it suggested it more in hope than expectation, but it's 
an easy thing to try and, at worst, would provide no useful info. OTOH 
IMV everyone should be using it for all their ATA drives.

If you want to know your drive needs to be replaced _now_ this program 
will tell you:-)

> -------------------------------
> # smartctl -a /dev/hdc
> smartctl version 5.30 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     SONY    DVD RW DW-U50A
> Serial Number:    EA21DF5E
> Firmware Version: 1.5b
> Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P 
> showall]
> ATA Version is:   6
> ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
> Local Time is:    Wed Jul 14 19:16:15 2004 EDT
> SMART support is: Unavailable - Packet Interface Devices [this device: 
> CD/DVD] don't support ATA SMART
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or 
> more '-T permissive' options.
> -------------------------------
>
>  


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Cheers
John

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